A lot of Brits have anyway!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal

Bank holiday suggests it’s UK, and we have legal requirement for 28 days holiday pro-rated per year. If staff don’t book it, the employer has to allocate it. So it is satire.

If it was from a USian, I wouldn’t be able to tell.

Only two of the ones you recommended show up in the play store for me. Anysoft got really bad reviews. I tried Unexpected, but it lives up to its name. I didn’t expect to need a read a manual to learn how it works. I’ve made sure futo doesn’t have internet access and it hasn’t sent any data according to android. I’m a Dvorak girl (even though it does make hilarious typos more likely on touchscreen) and its hard to find a good keyboard that works well with Dvorak.

Once fossify’s one comes out of beta, I’ll give it another go.

YouTube has no problem with multiple different ai generated gory videos of Rebecca Madeupname being mauled alive by an orca. Every time I opened a private window, one of these was recommended. No age restriction, nothing.

They have no problem with porn bots spamming family friendly channels with pro-paedo comments, even though they use the same avatars and messages so should be easy to filter out. Videos promoting dangerous hacks stay up even after multiple reports. They’re fine monetising reaction channels that are nothing more than freebooting other people’s work.

So YouTube’s tos really comes down to: it’s fine if it makes money.

I wish there was proper competition, even if it was run by another awful company like Microsoft or amazon. AFAIK no other platform offers monetisation like yt does, so people stay and put up with their crap.

(Personally I’m hoping to reupload mf stuff to peertube if I ever come out this slump.)

Dammit. Thanks for that. The description made it look like Foss and I fell for it. I’ve only just got my futo trained, but I’ll look at the others you recommended. I got the beta fossify before futo as I like the rest of the suite, but it didn’t even have a dictionary?

Futo is Foss and offline. I switched to it recently from Swiftkey. Before that, apps would always restart if I switched windows or tabbed back to home screen and I assumed it was just my phone being lame. But since switching, that happens a lot less. So I can only assume futo is using less resources.

Oooh but Irish is not a regional dialect of English, it’s a different language. Gotcha!

Not really. This side of the pond, we have suella braverman, priti Patel and the current leader of the opposition kemi badenoch. All British maga types. First two Indian ethnicity, the other Nigerian. Badenoch only has British citizenship from her parents booking a private hospital here to give birth to her, then went straight back to Nigeria.

She is frequently spewing hard right rhetoric about immigrants, saying they need to earn their citizenship, with no self awareness whatsoever. She denied racism was a problem in the uk until she personally started getting hate. Yet she still wants the far right in power and is determined to carry on pushing the Tories to the far right. Then when her wet dream comes true and Farridge gets in, with his plan to deport even legally settled immigrants, she’ll cry that the leopards weren’t meant to ear HER face.

Sean is an Irish name though. It is spelt Seán in Irish iirc. The e makes the s soft, the accent on a makes the e silent. Irish spelling does make sense once you learn the system.

Me too. I loved that theme. We had the stencils from Get Crafty. My dream was to get my own bedroom and decorate it with that theme.

(Just to clear up the misconception that the autism spectrum goes from NT to “severely” autistic. It’s not a linear scale from not autistic to autistic.)

But if someone takes your card and there’s no signature, the thief can just put their own signature.

In the UK it’s a thing. Especially if you don’t have chip and pin. If you don’t have a signature, we don’t take payment unless you have photo ID with the same name. We’re not paid enough to risk a jail sentence for putting through a stolen card.

Then you ask it for a seahorse emoji and it has a stroke.

I met her once. I didn’t even recognise her until I had to ask for ID (American tourists never sign their credit cards). And then I was like, oh. It’s Monica Lewinsky.

She’s a person who has the courage to stand by her convictions. Some people feel threatened by it, some people feel insecure about themselves because they lack the strength to do what she does. Much respect to her.

No it’s not. I have what used to called Aspergers and it’s not a freaking superpower, it made my childhood a painful and confusing time and still causes my trouble today. You can’t judge all autistics by one autistic. Look at Elon Musk, you think he represents the autistic community?

Oooh did you fall for that teddy bear hoax too?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jdbgmgr.exe_virus_hoax

Also, it’s time to get off the Internet now, I need to use the phone.

It’s really not that hard. I gave my ex my Mastodon url and he signed up so he could follow me. He didn’t even know what Mastodon or the Fediverse is.

It only gets complicated when federation gets janky, eg on my Mastodon.social account I can see so many more posts that I can on my main instance. In fact, I sometimes can’t even see some of my own .social posts unless I login via that account on tusky, then open as my main account. Even though the instances are federated. I have the same issue here with this account and my alt feddit.uk account. I can see comments/communities on one instance that I can’t see on another.

I tried the bicarb no-poo stuff for a couple of weeks, it was disgusting. Left my scalp feeling manky and gross. It’s way too alkaline to be good for your scalp. Soapnuts/soapwort worked better. The vinegar rinse was good stuff though.